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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Baja California peninsula\u00a0didn’t have paved road even this far until this generation.<\/h6>\n
Casa Hamaca is one of about 50 such American homes, most only intermittently\u00a0occupied, on the beach outside the town of Vincente Guerrero. It was warm, sometimes windy, sometimes foggy, and very quiet, but for the continual roar of the surf.\u00a0Maybe because of the time of year, we saw almost no one the entire week.<\/p>\n
The Casa is a two-bedroom place that has seen a lot of guests over the years, mostly for rest and recreation. That week it was just for Anne and me, and not to rest but to work. (Well, sort of.)<\/p>\n We took a few pictures immediately so we’d remember how to put all the furniture back after we turned the place into a working studio.<\/p>\n When I show these pictures people say, “It looks like your house.” Maybe so. We certainly felt right at home.<\/p>\n Besides reading and walks on the beach, art-making is what occupied almost all of our hours. I brought my easel, canvas and basic supplies; Anne brought her smaller press, a table and all her printmaking gear. It was so quiet, without even music. No Internet, no news, only our own sometimes conversation and the continual sound of the surf.<\/p>\n Though it all seems\u00a0idyllic, and it really was wonderful, for about the first three days I couldn’t get anything to work. I was experimenting with new things and getting nowhere. For the back story on that, see the Blank Slate<\/em> post, “A Prayer and a Response.”<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n In the afternoon of our last day we put up a “show” for ourselves to display all the work accomplished. Anne had completed 20 pieces! She explains that she’d brought some of them along unfinished and finished them there. It was a highly productive time, particularly as her work requires a momentum and a long set-up and take-down time.<\/p>\n And here’s my productivity after finally getting beyond the first three days’ malaise. For the most part, I did renditions of small ones I’d done before, photos of which I had on my camera phone.<\/p>\n For views of each of the pieces done on this trip, you can click on the links to the respective website pages. For Anne’s, that will be here<\/span><\/a><\/span>. For Hyatt’s, go here<\/span><\/a><\/span>. The Baja<\/em> pieces are marked “NEW<\/span>.” Click on those thumbnails for larger views, and again for yet larger.<\/p>\n A glorious sunset, as we saw it over dinner most evenings . . . and a perfect way to end this “slide show.”<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n Lots of new work, all for sale, or just to view and visit friends.<\/span> Open by Appointment Offering 2-hour sessions on Mondays and Saturday mornings<\/a><\/p>\nA quick picture of the setting just as we pulled in.<\/h6>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nLiving room (left) and kitchen (right).<\/h6>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThe inner patio.<\/h6>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nOur respective workspaces.<\/h6>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nA few early pieces drying in the sun, all of which were destroyed or painted over.<\/h6>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThe artist, her tools, and the week’s work of her hands.<\/h6>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nMy ten “keepers.”<\/h6>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nOne more view of the whole wall of the “show” we put up for ourselves.<\/h6>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThe Creator’s art.<\/h6>\n
Ongoing and Upcoming Events<\/h1>\n
Come to the Moore Open House and Studio Show\u2013<\/span>
\n the weekend before Thanksgiving<\/span><\/h2>\n
\n 33752 Big Sur, Dana Point, California 92629<\/span>
\n Saturday, November 17, 1:00-9:00<\/span>
\n Sunday, November 18, 1:00-5:00<\/span>
\n For complete invitation, click here:<\/span> \u00a0House Show 11’12<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\nMoore & Moore Art Gallery in Dana Point<\/h2>\n
\n949-240-4642<\/p>\nSemi-Private Coaching for Painters<\/h2>\n
\nIn the Hyatt Moore Studio, Dana Point
\nCall\u00a0 949-240-4642<\/p>\nPrintmaking Classes<\/h2>\n